What a very interesting day it has been. I have been concentrating on learning about how to drive traffic from Hub Pages and Squidoo.com.
I’ve been reading about using the latest websites to help you build a viral loop.
Check out my efforts at my new Hub Page and my Squidoo Lens to see what I’m talking about - I’ll let you know how much traffic this begins to generate over the next few weeks.
By the way, what do you all think of the new header graphic on the website?
The front page revamp continues. I have now completed and loaded up the new e-course 7 Easy Ways to Have A Great Day. It is available to anyone who subscribes to the newsletter and it is completely free.
Phase 2 of the redesign is also complete, now that I have uploaded the new header design. I’ve gone for visually stating the obvious by including a graphic of a stack of dollar bills and a brain on the right hand side; Money and Mind, see?
Simple, but effective. I like it anyway.
The Adsense revenue continues to rush in! Well, OK, trickle then. It’s up to $1.90 now and as I said in an earlier post - that’s at zero cost to me. As the traffic builds, so too will the money I’m assuming.
I’m off now to study some more on increasing blog links.
I’m excited to find that my site Money-and-Mind has finally registered on Alexa and I now have a traffic rank for the first time! OK, OK I’m only ranked at number 2,245,649 but there are plenty of other sites out there with lower traffic than that and, hey, Money-and-Mind has only been online since June 21st - so Im pretty pleased with myself.
Phase 1 of the front page revamp is almost complete and I’ll be rolling out my new sign-up bonus later today. It’s a 7 part e-course that I’m really pleased with, called ” 7 Easy Ways to Have A Great Day”
I’ll be posting again later when it goes live.
Hi Friends,
I have lots to write about today, but I’ll save some for other posts.
I have decided to revamp my homepage because I believe that I could be getting a higher conversion rate. I’m happy with the way my traffic is building, but I’m sure that more visitors would sign up for the newsletter, if I make a few changes. At the moment, my average conversion rate in the last month has been around 8%, which considering that I’m giving something away for free is pretty low! I reckon I can do way better.
The first change is going to be a new Sign-up bonus. I’m in the middle of writing a new e-book called, Have a Great Day and it’s all about how to ensure that each and every day is better than the last. As soon as it’s done I’ll let you know and even if you’re already a subscriber, I’ll make sure you get a copy.
Keep smiling. Andrew
Although I’ve been dabbling in the web for quite a while now, I have so far steered clear of Adsense as a means of making money, but recently I put up some pages as an experiment just to see whether I could generate a few clicks and see how the whole thing worked.
That was a few days ago and to be honest, I had forgotten about them and it was only when I was editing something else that I remembered them.
So I was pleased to find when I logged into my Adsense account that I had actually earned my first money from some Adsense clickthroughs. Now I’ll be honest, it’s less than a dollar and equates to only around 10 cents a click, but the really exciting thing to me is that it cost me nothing apart from time. I built the pages for free using a little of my own existing contant and a few articles from other authors (all fully accredited) and then I linked the pages into my existing domain and just left them waiting for Google to spider them. You’ll find the pages here.
Now I have a click-through rate of 3.5% and a tiny bit of money in the bank. So what will I do next? Learn how to really make them sing!
To do that I’ve just downloaded and I’m working through Joel Comm’s brilliant guide to Adsense Google AdSense Secrets 3.0 ebook
I’ll keep you posted here as things progress.
To our success - Andrew
I got an e-mail this morning from a guy called Jon Davies. I had never heard of him before today, but this man is a genius of viral marketing and he has made me some money already!
It was a well written e-mail offering me a free e-book. Nothing particularly different about that, I hear you say - yes you’re right but there was something about the message that intrigued me enough to want to follow the link.
You can always tell when a marketing message is well written when it twangs your curiosity cord and a little voice says “Hmm, I wonder what that’s about”.
You should make a mental note to yourself to always try and waken that voice in your prospect’s heads.
Anyway, the link took me to a simple but very effective site where I could download the e-book. The sales copy was equally well written and by this time my Curiosity cord was twanging like crazy.
I jumped. I downloaded the e-book and did exactly what it said. Less than one hour later, I had made a sale and since then I’ve made a bunch more.
You have to check this out! Click Here
The guy has done it so cleverly and it’s so easy to get involved even if you don’t have a website, a product, an affiliate account or anything - you could be making sales tonight.
Try it!! Click here and you’ll see what I mean
The more I hear the more I’m amazed by this guy’s experience. I’ve just been watching his video on Blogging and how to get the most traffic from it. It’s made me set up my blog in a completely new way. I can’t wait to do some more tomorrow.
I’m a great believer in continuous learning. No matter how old or experienced you are, even if other people call you an expert - you can still learn something new. I’m just working through an amazing online course in Traffic Building techniques that is completely opening my mind.
This guy Michael Cheney has put together an online resource that completely demystifies every possible aspect of driving traffic to your website. Some of this stuff, I’ve never heard of before and I’ve been around for a while. I’ll be talking more about this in future as I get more from it, but if you want to take a look now, go to:
Hello Brave World - indeed!
I’ve just gone through the slightly awe inspiring process of installing Wordpress on my own site and I’ve actually impressed myself because it seems to be working. So if you’re thinking of doing the same - don’t be afraid, it’s not as tough as it sounds.
There’ll be lots more posts from me very soon, but I’m just going to go away and pat myself on the back.
Powered by WordPress